Lucifer+match

  • 21match —   1. Contest. Ho okūkū; kahului (rare).   2. Equal. Lua, kohu like, like ālike, like, like loa, like pū, likelike, kohu.    ♦ To match, ho ohālikelike, ho olikelike, ho ohālike.    ♦ To arrange a match, ho omoe, ho omoemoe (marriage).    ♦ Well… …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 22Lucifer — noun Etymology: Middle English, the morning star, a fallen rebel archangel, the Devil, from Old English, from Latin, the morning star, from lucifer light bearing, from luc , lux light + fer ferous more at light Date: before 12th century 1. used… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 23lucifer — noun A self igniting match, ie. one which could be lit by striking on any surface (as opposed to safety matches which only light against the material on the side of the box). 1915: While youve a lucifer to light your fag,Smile, boys, thats the… …

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  • 24match — There are two unrelated words match in English, of which the older is ‘counterpart’ [OE]. This goes back to an Old English gemæcca ‘mate’, whose ancestry can be traced to a prehistoric *gamakjon, a word based on the collective prefix *ga and *mak …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 25Lucifer — [ lu:sɪfə] noun 1》 the Devil. 2》 literary the planet Venus when it rises in the morning. 3》 (lucifer) archaic a match. Origin OE, from L., light bringing, morning star , from lux, luc light + fer bearing …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 26lucifer — archaic a match. → Lucifer …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 27match — I n 1. mate, twin, double, look alike, counterpart, one of a pair, bird of a feather, Astron. comes; duplicate, copy, facsimile, replica, replication, reproduction, same thing, Inf. spit and image, Inf. spitting image, Sl. ringer. 2. parallel,… …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 28lucifer — /ˈlusəfə/ (say loohsuhfuh) noun → friction match. {from Lucifer} …

  • 29match — There are two unrelated words match in English, of which the older is ‘counterpart’ [OE]. This goes back to an Old English gemæcca ‘mate’, whose ancestry can be traced to a prehistoric *gamakjon, a word based on the collective prefix *ga and *mak …

    Word origins

  • 30Lucifer — n. 1 Satan. 2 poet. the morning star (the planet Venus). 3 (lucifer) archaic a friction match. Etymology: OE f. L, = light bringing, morning star (as LUX, fer f. ferre bring) …

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